Zulily will remain based in Seattle. Getty Images Liberty Interactive Corporation, the owner of TV shopping network QVC, is acquiring shopping site Zulily for roughly $2.4 billion in a move to create a “digital commerce powerhouse,” Liberty announced Monday. Focused on Internet-savvy moms, Zulily launched in 2010 offering flash sales that only last for a …
Read More »
Check out all the places we’ve been on CNET’s Road Trip 2015. On the 21st floor of New York’s Woolworth Building, the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1913, there’s a new structure that’s on track to break records. David Etherington, the chief strategy officer at municipal advertising giant Titan, is helping to create a structure …
Read More »
Tinbox wants to take the chill out of donating to charity. One of a cohort of new do-good apps, Tinbox aims to let people give a single dollar to a cause every day in a way that’s as easy as sending a Snapchat message, sharing a Facebook post or summoning an Uber ride. The brainchild of Adrien Guilmineau, 20, studying …
Read More »
As the global tablet market continues to decline, Apple is losing share in the overall market. Screenshot by CNET Tablets are continuing to lose their allure. Marked by little hardware innovation and limited upgrades, the tablet market declined seven percent year over year as of the second quarter, the International Data Corporation (IDC) said. Global tablet shipments totaled 44.7 million …
Read More »
Director Spike Lee’s next major film will be produced by Amazon Studios. Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage After months of rumors, it’s official. Amazon Studios will produce Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee’s next major film (working title, “Chi-Raq”). And it will be Amazon’s very first original movie. Directed by Lee and co-written with writer and director Kevin Willmott, the film “will shed light …
Read More »
An iOS device family photo from 2012: The iPad Mini is at center between the fourth-gen iPad and fifth-gen iPod Touch. CNET The era of the the original iPad Mini has come and gone. Consumers in the market for a modest-sized, budget-priced tablet will no longer find that version of the iPad Mini for sale on Apple’s website or available …
Read More »
